Re: (Off topic) Retraining on Solaris

Or maybe you had a good trainer. It's certainly not impossible to give a good course - the material is just a bad child of a learning and a reference book, resulting in something that isn't good in either. And the material is far better that the horrible Perl courses they came up with (but not as bad as the Perl material from HP education - with that material you can play the game "open a page, try to find anything on the page that is actually correct" - a surprisingly difficult game). But I disgress.

Abigail

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Re: Re: (Off topic) Retraining on Solaris by nimdokk (Vicar) on May 25, 2004 at 13:41 UTC
Actually, it was a CBT. I think I would have preferred that to sitting in a classroom though. I know that they re-did the Intro Perl course but with the Advanced one, the instructor pretty much tossed the book out because it was so bad.	[reply]
Re: (Off topic) Retraining on Solaris by Abigail-II (Bishop) on May 25, 2004 at 14:39 UTC
The intro Perl course book was bad before, and it was bad after. Well, at least the "after" book could call itself a book, it actually had some prose in it. But both books still had the typical SUN style of education. "Day1: Perl also has operators. Here are all the operators." I've advised my students to take a black marker and mark complete chapters black. (Like the utter bullshit they managed to write about 'local' - but that's a general peeve of mine, why do introduction books teach 'local' in the same breath as 'my' - and why do they have the tendency to delay introducing 'my' until they start talking about subs? That the PODs do so doesn't mean it's appropriate to copy). Abigail	[reply]